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Thursday, March 25, 2004

You don't get any lower than this

The defense in the Colorado rape trials is trying to argue that since the victim was angry about being raped and had revenge fantasies, that somehow shows that she was setting these football players up to begin with. Are there really that many people out there who believe women are out to get men and are just waiting for an opportunity? Are there enough of them to seat a 12 person jury anymore?
I can only imagine if this logic was used in any other kind of crime. Say, a young man gets beat within an inch of his life by members of a football team for say, playing on another football team. After he recovers, he is overheard saying that he hates those guys and wishes he could ruin their lives. Would the defense be allowed to use that as evidence of her clients' innocence? Since he was hostile after the fact, that proves that he was a hostile sort and must have asked for an ass-kicking so that he could then ruin their lives later, after all.